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Originally Posted by Pruzhany
So there's another Beit Sahour? You're quoting information that's 25 years out of date. It's a different city now compared to then. Things did happen there, but adding propaganda garbage does not make it the truth.You say you are from the region. Well so am I. I have the Ottoman tax stamps to prove my maternal Jewish line has owned over 1000 dunams for hundreds of years East of Jerusalem. Large swaths of land in Judea and Samaria were lived on and owned by Jews previous to 1948. Large swaths of land were sold to the JNF before 1948 by Arabs. But the Arabs who occupied those lands for 18 years want to the world to believe Jews never lived there before 1948. Enough with the lies.
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Oh Yeah, lets take a look at some surveys of land ownership as of 1947 as given from British surveys of land ownership.
Land Ownership In Palestine (As Of 1947).
Land ownership per district 1945. Once again, a BRITISH survey, so don't give me the excuse "the site isn't credible" because of its name gibberish.
Palestinian And Zionist Land Ownership Per District as of 1945 - Palestine Remembered
Lets take a look at these "large swaths" of "Judea and Sameria" Jews owned as of 1945. It also shows Palestinian AND public owned land.
JERUSALEM District- 84% Arab, 14% Jewish, 2% public
Ramallah District- 98% Arab, 1% Jewish, 1% public
Nablus District- 86% Arab, 13% Jewish, 1% public
Tulkaram District- 78% Arab, 17% Jewish, 5% public
HEBRON District- 95% Arab, 4% Jewish, 1% public
In fact, the only district in where Jews own almost as much as Palestinians as of 1945 is Haifa- 42% Arab, 35% Jewish, 23% public.
And if we look at agriculture Arabs/Other Jewish Total
Urban 76,662 70,111 146,773
Citrus 145,572 141,188 286,760
Bananas 2,300 1,430 3,730
Rural built-on area 36,851 42,330 79,181
Plantation 1,079,788 95,514 1,175,302
Cereal land (taxable) 5,503,183 814,102 6,317,285
Cereal land (not taxable) 900,294 51,049 951,343
Uncultivable 16,925,805 298,523 17,224.328
Total area:
24,670,455 1,514,247 26,184,702
Percentage
94.22% 5.8% 100%
So sorry, but like when most Zionists speak, what you tried claiming were lies. If your family owned property in what is now the West Bank, they should have a right to it. But 1,000 durams isn't much. Heck, my family owned 10,000 alone in Beit Dajon which was Jafa district at the time. I believe that if your family can prove they owned property, they should be able to keep it and become Palestinian citizens or be compensated. Likewise all Arabs who owned land should be compensated or allowed to return to it, as Israeli citizens.
But if this is a "What's yours is ours and what's ours is ours" situation, which is what Israel wants given the Absentee Property act, oh well! Looks like problems will remain until settled.
PS- you proved you know little since you said that Palestinians were moving into Jewish areas when I brought up Palestinians leaving the West Bank. Very very few Palestinians from the West Bank move into Israel. Most of them who do are due to family unification, which is rare. Most of the time the Israeli Arab ends up moving to the West Bank, or the Jewish woman if married to an PA resident.
LOL your first time in my homeland was on Birthright wasn't it? Do me a favor- post a picture of your proof of land ownership inside the West Bank and I will gladly post ours. I think you're lying. Or post your families passport cover of Palestine(Pre 1948)
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